2014 Subway Firecracker 250

• (R) denotes rookie driver
• (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points

With 49 laps to go, Regan Smith took the lead. At the same time. The first caution flew for debris. Regan Smith won the race off of pit road to keep his lead. The race restarted with 43 laps to go. With 31 to go, Kyle Busch tried to take the lead and led that lap but could not pass Smith. Busch tried again multiple times with a push from Trevor Bayne but could not pass Smith and they fell back in the pack with 23 to go. Smith also had his teammate behind him in second in the young rookie sensation Chase Elliott and it looked like either Smith or Elliott might be able to win depending on the final laps. But with 8 laps to go, the second caution flew when Brendan Gaughan got turned out of turn 4 by Bubba Wallace and overcorrected up and collected rookie Dylan Kwasniewski giving Kwasniewski some damage. The race turned into a fuel strategy race as cars began saving fuel during the caution period. The race restarted with 3 laps to go. But on the restart, Chase Elliott's car ran out of gas as soon the green flag dropped which caused a stack up on the inside lane and a four car crash that brought out the third and final caution of the race involving Elliott Sadler and David Ragan spinning and giving Trevor Bayne and J. J. Yeley damage. The caution would set up a green-white-checkered finish. On the restart, Smith and Kyle Larson were side by side for the lead with Smith getting pushed by Joey Logano and Larson getting pushed by Ryan Reed. In turns 3 and four, the third car on the outside line in David Starr pushed up the race track and hit the wall in a very close call as it almost wrecked the field. No caution was thrown. Regan Smith led coming to the white flag. On the final lap, Smith got out in front of Larson with a push by Logano, Kasey Kahne, and Ryan Sieg. Down the backstretch, Logano peaked to the outside of Smith but Smith blocked Logano and Logano fell back giving Kahne a side by side battle for second with Larson. Coming out of turn 4, Smith got so far ahead it gave the pack a chance to catchup which they would. Larson peaked to the outside of Smith with Kahne right beside him but could not get up there. Kahne got a big run on the outside with a push from Ryan Sieg and Kahne would beat Smith by .020 seconds to take home his first and only win of the season. It would be the only lap Kahne would lead all race. This was the second time in a row Smith was involved in a drag race to the checkered flag at Daytona after Smith beat Brad Keselowski by .013 seconds in the previous Daytona race but this time Smith finished second. Ryan Sieg, Ryan Reed, and Kyle Larson rounded out the top 5 while Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, Jeremy Clements, Trevor Bayne, and Mike Wallace rounded out the top 10. This would be Ryan Sieg and Ryan Reed's first career top 5 finish in their Nationwide Series careers as Sieg and Reed finished 3rd and 4th.[5]